01. Forebode02. The Tongue Of The Demagogue03. Under The Wretched Sun Of Hattin04. Elegy Of Ruin05. The Headless Serpent06. A Sheath Of Deceit07. Elegy Of Staves08. A Malthusian Epoch09. As Paupers Safeguard Magnates10. Created Sick; Commanded To Be Well11. The Last King

I don't know. If the production wasn't so tasty and all-consuming, it would be a fairly boring affair. Can't say I've come back to it much now that other stuff has been released. But I've got to admit, the sheer immensity of the sound is awesome.

The sound on this album is generally depressive and brooding, but with an extremely dark tone and overbearing heaviness courtesy of the guitar work. For me the instrumentals running under a minute cut the flow of the album and the vocals appear to be buried too much into the mix, but with excellently structured songs such as 'The headless serpent' and quite brilliant instrumental 'Created sick; Commanded to be well' Abyssal seem to be firing on all cylinders with this album. Perhaps next time the band could forget about putting those sub-minute instrumentals into the finished product.